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In this chapter, I review the historical emergence of institutions for children and the factors that enabled physical and sexual abuse of children in residential care. I consider whether abuse is more prevalent in institutions than outside them, and the role of social construction in framing accounts of abuse. I then present care leavers’, former residents’, and victim/survivors’ memories of institutional life and its impact.1
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© 2014 Kathleen Daly
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Daly, K. (2014). Institutions for Children and Memories of Institutional Life. In: Redressing Institutional Abuse of Children. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137414359_4
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